Professor Timothy Barker

Professor of Media Technology and Aesthetics (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

School of CCA, Gillmorehill Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Research interests

My research could be summed up as a critical analysis of the aesthetics and infrastructures of digital technology in the contemporary world. I work mainly in the tradition of media archaeology, and across the fields of media theory, art theory and the philosophy of technology, with a particular interest in technically informed discourse analysis, as well as the continental tradition of philosophy of technology. My first book Time and the Digital (Dartmouth, 2012) traces connections between the philosophy of time in the work of Gilles Deleuze and A.N. Whitehead and explores through this framework questions of time, history and memory in relation to digital aesthetics, communication technology and contemporary interactive art. My second book, Against Transmission: Media Philosophy and the Engineering of Time (Bloomsbury, 2018), similarly focuses on questions of time and technology, but this time takes a more historical approach, exploring the ways that experiences of time have been engineered through the history of measurement and storage media. My most recent work has been dedicated to exploring questions of technology and contemporary moments of crisis, largely inspired by a critical reading of Michel Serres’ philosophy of technology.

Publications

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Number of items: 49.

2024

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2024) Artificial creativity: a process philosophy of technology perspective. Journal of Continental Philosophy, 5(1), pp. 93-115. (doi: 10.5840/jcp202411653)

2023

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2023) Michel Serres and the philosophy of technology. Theory, Culture and Society, 40(6), pp. 35-50. (doi: 10.1177/02632764221140825)

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2023) Unplayable games: time and digital culture. Kunsttexte, 2023(2),

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2023) Media temporalities and the technical image. In: de Vaujanay, Francoise-Xavier, Holt, Robin and Grandazzi, Albane (eds.) Organisation as Time: Technology, Power and Politics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009297257

2021

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2021) The transcendental and the agonistic: a media philosophy perspective. Foundations of Science, 27(2), pp. 521-525. (doi: 10.1007/s10699-020-09761-2)

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 and Korolkova, Maria (Eds.) (2021) Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media. Series: Thinking media. Bloomsbury Academic: New York ; London. ISBN 9781501363856

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2021) Post-communication theory. In: Barker, Timothy and Korolkova, Maria (eds.) Miscommunication: Mistakes, Errors, Media. Series: Thinking media. Bloomsbury Academic: New York ; London, pp. 46-60. ISBN 9781501363856

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 and Korolkova, Maria (2021) Introduction: bad operators. In: Barker, Timothy and Korolkova, Maria (eds.) Miscommunication: Mistakes, Errors, Media. Series: Thinking media. Bloomsbury Academic: New York ; London, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9781501363856

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2021) Michel Serres’ messengers. Media Theory, 5(1), pp. 163-184.

2020

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2020) Between emergence and emergencies: an introduction to the special issue ‘Media, Materiality, and Emergency’. MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, 1(2), pp. 3-22.

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2020) Special Issue: Media, Materiality and Emergency [Guest Editor]. MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, 1(2),

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2020) Media philosophy. MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, 1(1), pp. 8-13.

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2020) Video: aesthetics/agonism/anti-dialectics. In: Filimowicz, Michael and Tzankova, Veronika (eds.) Reimagining Communication: Mediation. Routledge, pp. 55-69. ISBN 9781138498907 (doi: 10.4324/9781351015431-4)

2019

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025, Bisschoff, Lizelle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-0377 and Watson, Lauren (2019) Game On, Africa! [Exhibitions]

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2019) Time and the problems of television: three images. Philosophies, 4(3), 52. (doi: 10.3390/philosophies4030052)

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2019) Cultural techniques of play: a media philosophical approach to the study of time, history and memory in games. Configurations, 27(1), pp. 87-110. (doi: 10.1353/con.2019.0003)

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2019) Philosophies of Time, Media and Contemporaneity [Guest Editor]. Philosophies, 4,

2018

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2018) Against Transmission: Media Philosophy and the Engineering of Time. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781474293099

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2018) Television in and out of time. In: Hoskins, Andrew (ed.) Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition. Routledge: New York, pp. 173-189. ISBN 9781138639379

2017

Barker, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2017) Experiments with time: the technical image in media art and the digital humanities. Visual Communication, 16(4), pp. 375-394. (doi: 10.1177/1470357217702360)

Barker, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2017) Media in and out of time: German media science and the concept of time. In: Markham, T. and Rodgers, S. (eds.) Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Perspectives on Media. Peter Lang: New York, pp. 125-134. ISBN 9781433134708

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2017) Sean Cubitt, The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels. Screen, 58(3), pp. 375-378. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjx031)[Book Review]

2015

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 and McKeown, Conor (2015) Unearthing techno-ecology: on the possibility of a technical media philosophy of ecology. Digital Culture and Society, 1(1), pp. 21-38. (doi: 10.14361/dcs-2015-0103)

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2015) Media ecology in Michel Serres’ Philosophy of Communication. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 19(1), pp. 50-68. (doi: 10.5840/techne201532327)

2013

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2013) Experimental research in the digital media arts. In: Chan, J. and Thomas, K. (eds.) Handbook of Research on Creativity. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9780857939807

Barker, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2013) Recomposing the digital present. In: Groom, Amelia (ed.) Time. Series: Documents of contemporary art. Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press: London ; Cambridge, Mass.. ISBN 9780854882151

2012

Barker, T.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2012) Becoming Organ-ized: The Creativity of Organization, Dis-Organization and Re-Organization in Scientific and Artistic Experiments. Leonardo: Art Science and Technology, 45(3), pp. 262-268. (doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_00369)

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2012) Images and eventfulness: expanded cinema and experimental research at the University of New South Wales. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 6(2), pp. 111-123. (doi: 10.1386/sac.6.2.111_1)

Barker, T.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2012) Information and the atmosphere: exploring the relationship between the natural environment and information aesthetics. M/C Journal, 15(3),

Barker, T.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2012) Time and the Digital: Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time. Series: Interfaces, studies in visual culture. Dartmouth College Press: Hanover, NH. ISBN 9781611682991

2011

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2011) The past in the present: understanding David Claerbout's temporal aesthetics. Time and Society, 20(3), pp. 286-303. (doi: 10.1177/0961463X10375103)

Brown, N.C.M., Barker, T.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 and Del Favero, D. (2011) Performing digital aesthetics: the framework for a theory of the formation of interactive narratives. Leonardo: Art Science and Technology, 44(3), pp. 212-219. (doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_00165)

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2011) Aesthetics of the error: media art, the machine, the unforeseen and the errant. In: Nunes, M. (ed.) Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures. Continuum: New York, USA. ISBN 9781441121202

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2011) Experiments with time: technology, art and temporality. In: NIEA Experimental Arts Conference, Sydney, Australia, 19-20 Aug 2011,

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2011) Objects and interaction. Digital Creativity, 22(2), pp. 65-77. (doi: 10.1080/14626268.2011.578579)

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2011) Re-composing the digital present. Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 1(1), pp. 88-104. (doi: 10.5195/contemp.2011.13)

2010

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2010) Interactive aesthetics: iCinema, interactive narratives and immersive environments. In: 15th Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, Australia, 30 Nov - 3 Dec 2010,

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025, Del Favero, D. and Hardjono, A. (2010) Memory process and frontier technology. In: War, Literature and the Arts Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 16-18 Sept 2010,

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 and Hardjono, A. (2010) T_Visionarium and scenario. In: University of New South Wales (UNSW) International Research Week, Sydney, Australia, 5-7 Sept 2010,

Del Favero, D. and Barker, T.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2010) Scenario: co-evolution, shared autonomy and mixed reality. In: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Seoul, South Korea, 13-16 Oct 2010, (doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-AMH.2010.5643299)

2009

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2009) A.N. Whitehead and digital aesthetics. In: Creative Margins Conference, Perth, Australia, 5-6 Nov 2009,

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2009) Process and (mixed) reality: a process philosophy for interaction in mixed reality environments. In: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Orlando, FL, USA, 19-22 Oct 2009, (doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-AMH.2009.5336731)

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2009) Towards a process philosophy for digital aesthetics. In: 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Belfast, UK, 23 Aug - 1 Sept 2009,

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2009) Writing a media art history. In: Writing Intersections Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 18-19 Nov 2009,

2008

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2008) The error and the event. Vector (e-zine), X06,

2007

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2007) Adapting a model of duration: the multi-temporality of T_Visionarium II. M/C Journal, 10(2),

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2007) Error, the unforeseen and the emergent: the error in interactive media art. M/C Journal, 10(5),

2006

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2006) The affect of deep sleep within duration: temporality, narrativity, and interactivity within the affective medium of interactive cinema. In: Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 7-9 Dec 2006,

Barker, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0382-8025 (2006) Pentimento, past, present and future: an interactive construction of memory. In: Rethinking the Past Conference, Sydney, Australia, 28-29 July 2006,

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